Do you enjoy farming?

[Hilly]

I often wonder if that's the individual bull and not the breed had Hereford sim and Charlie bulls and the Charlie calfs were the most forward of all the calves followed by sim then Hereford

I think dopiness can be selenium , is just stoopid tho

 

[Vader]

Not sure if this will make farming better or worse...
Never had sheep, death wish fluff balls...

kid wanted some and wanted this breed.
He now owns 3 sheep....

 

[Reilly Michael]

Yes and no. Enjoy the doing, the pulling together and beating the odds be it weather, machinery or actually managing to sell stuff at a reasonable price.

Fairly well scunnered with the endless hangers on, the auditors, the compliance teams who need reams of pointless paperwork, the cocks inventing rules/standards to justify their existence, the “experts” who if they were that good, should be farming themselves, the office bods who get their knickers in a twist about something and need the world to stop (but only important between 9 and 5, not weekends, bank holidays, or during annual leave, then the “important” thing is ok to wait a fortnight for them to return from Marbella…….. then it’s top priority again and all else must yield in its pursuit).

The practical side is enjoyable, the theory is not.

Well said. The office experts should be made to farm for at least 5 years before they introduce regulations and understand the consequences. Their bank account is not increased at the end of every month when farming.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

There are millions of people stuck doing jobs they don’t want to do, that they don’t enjoy and feeling is grinding them down.

So ask yourself, do you want to be a bit fed up doing their job, or farming?

 

[unlacedgecko]

There are millions of people stuck doing jobs they don’t want to do, that they don’t enjoy and feeling is grinding them down.

So ask yourself, do you want to be a bit fed up doing their job, or farming?

That's why I started farming.

 

[Surgery]

Not with inputs at the price they are , it’s never been the same job since machinery got bigger meaning less blokes about the yard

 

[vantage]

Less so I guess.
Can never seem to have enough hrs in the day, while everyone else on school run seems to have plenty. They pick up kids and thats it for the day. I take mine home and back to work.
Also tired of the public.
All today had motor bikes , some with young kids on, crossing road from housing estate and flying up and down the fresh drilling.
Police don't care.
Dog walkers thinking the farm is a park.
Fly tipping nearly everyday. House clearance stuff or cannabis factory clearcut...
Everyday seems got a problem because of someone else doing something on farm they should not be doing..

I can see that you need several sets of upturned grass harrows!

 

[zero]

I like the general day today farm jobs. Planting crops and watching the drill seams come through is still my favourite bit.
But i don't like all the unnecessary paperwork and the parasite's that generate it.

 

[Red Fred]

Not sure if this will make farming better or worse...
Never had sheep, death wish fluff balls...

kid wanted some and wanted this breed.
He now owns 3 sheep....

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What variety are they? My good lady loves her Greyfaced Dartmoors and I must say the longwools are very pleasant to have about the garden, etc in small numbers.

 

[Jonp]

Yes I enjoy farming.
Started in 2014 when I was 54 when I bought 15 ewes and 4 calfs.
Uptill then I'd been a pretty selfish person, livestock changed that. Now I do everything for them to get the best I can from them.
Don't take subs and am now a Tennant with about 100 acres.
One man band lambing and calving and am enjoying the learning....got a healthy flock of sheep and good cows, very low input, mainly because I've nearly learnt how to manage and improve my grass with stock only. This year I'm going to try and keep the Topper parked up.
Wish I'd started earlier in life as I really like my sheeps and cows.
Best part of farming is that you're your own boss...if it works it's down to you...if it doesn't the same applies. Got to add that I've had alot of help from a few local farmers that l do work for and my landlord is great.
It's not an easy life but very rewarding.

 

[Forkdriver]

My father told me early on that there wasn't a place on the farm for me and to get out and do something else. Elder brother took the farm and couldn't hack it. I was very grateful, eventually that I was independent, and now officially retired can afford my own small farm. It's a hobby that costs, but I love it.

 

[ColinV6]

I find myself really struggling to gain any excitment day to day recently. I get up when the alarm wakes me, and I’d quite happily and easily just roll over and go back to sleep. Even at work I can think of plenty of jobs but the motivation just isn’t there, so I end up doing them, but feeling almost bored while I’m doing it.

It’s probably a combination of high prices, ropey weather for April, mornings are still dark when I get up etc but I don’t like it. Even when I go home, the TV Is crap, so we have tea, and once my daughter is in bed we just find something crappy to sit and watch until bedtime, then it’s rinse and repeat.

Still.... summers coming, cows will be out soon and silage will be growing!!

 

[MrNoo]

I like the general day today farm jobs. Planting crops and watching the drill seams come through is still my favourite bit.
But i don't like all the unnecessary paperwork and the parasite's that generate it.

Exactly this, farming is the easy part, I love it, spring drilling, combining, the seasons. Red Tractor I despise, NFU too and any other quango making more rules and regs for us to adhere to and making money out of us at the same time. Maybe thats the grand plan for them.

 

[Tarw Coch]

There seems to be a common theme developing


Not that I’m the lesst bit surprised

 

[Yale]

I think as I get older the worry bit is more in the back of my mind, as now it's what if because we have changed our lamb worming regime will we have issues.
The what if this that and the other.

Last few days challenges have been suckler cows and calves when one false move and I would have been squished, lambs popping out everywhere, not getting around all the jobs.

At one point yesterday I had two cows calved in the scraping passage and took me an hour to shift everything around to make room.

I've got too much on really because father is getting towards 80 so is becoming something else I have to be aware of and manage.

However I feel changes to a more extensive system are on the horizon simply as I cannot run the place as it is on my own with current stock levels.

Input price levels are going to help the decision making as the figures will stack up even more to keep less stock and hopefully have a little more time for the family.

Barely had a day off in 2 years because let's face it who wants to go somewhere and return with Covid, managed to avoid it so far.

 

[yellow belly]

farming now is a lot more exciting than it was in 2001 to 2007
foot and mouth wheat as low as £65 a tonne millions of livestock killed
very grim then
the best paying crop then was setaside

 

[Vader]

What variety are they? My good lady loves her Greyfaced Dartmoors and I must say the longwools are very pleasant to have about the garden, etc in small numbers.

Meant to be ryelands.
Couple ppl here now sure if pure...

 

[Fendt65]

Love cows, hate sh!t

Love sh!t hate slurry you just can’t stack it !

 

[Fendt65]

Not enjoying farming, not enjoying life much either, constant worry, two elderly partners and another who won't communicate, tax bills seem to get bigger every year, an elderly aunt that when she passes I will have a huge inheritance tax bill to sort out. I look around my farming neighbors and they all seem to be flying new tractors/machinery every year, flash cars, kids at private school, multiple foreign holidays a year, can't see how they do it ! Doesn't help that my dad is always saying " you're a millionaire you know with all that you will own" I have to remind him that we would have to sell up for that to happen ! In my mid 40s and ready to give up ! Don't see much future in the job to be honest ! I have 2 kids with leaning difficulty's and my wife has been recently diagnosed with adult ADHD and is on the autism spectrum. I know there's people who are far worse off than me, but at times it's difficult !

Go and get some advice on the inheritance issue it will be worth it, talk to people they will listen
most new tractors I think are never actually paid for they are just a way of moving money around and trying to cut the tax bill
most of all talk to people a problem shared!.

 

[Weasel]

Meant to be ryelands.
Couple ppl here now sure if pure...

The lambs are coloured ryelands, not sure about the mother